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Car accidentally crashes into support beam at Sharon Heights …
Dec 6, 2024 · Stores in the Sharon Heights Shopping Center remained open after a car knocked a support beam off of the building’s foundation around 11 a.m. on Friday.
Year in review: An election, a fire and chaos in San Mateo County ...
Dec 30, 2024 · Environment. The year started off in San Mateo County with sweeping power outages and tree damage after a large storm with 50 mph winds hit the county in early February. Following the wet winter, several birds throughout the county tested positive for West Nile virus. This news organization took an inside look at the tiny mosquitofish that the San Mateo County Mosquito and Vector Control ...
Hazy and foggy weather, unhealthy air for sensitive groups …
Dec 8, 2024 · Foggy and hazy conditions are in place across the Bay Area, air quality is unhealthy for sensitive groups and a Spare the Air alert is in place Sunday, public agencies said. A mix of low-level temperature inversions and weak winds has helped to decrease atmospheric mixing, creating foggy/hazy conditions across the Bay Area, the National […]
San Mateo County announces appointment of Colleen Chawla as …
Dec 6, 2024 · Chawla is joining San Mateo County from Alameda County Health where she has served as agency director since 2017. Some 13 years prior, she held several roles at the San Francisco Department of Public Health, including deputy director of health.
Los Altos author’s debut novel dives into family secrets
Dec 10, 2024 · Like her characters, Nelson has lived in both California and New England. She grew up in Los Altos, attended Colby College in Maine, then ended up back on the Peninsula, living in Palo Alto’s College Terrace neighborhood (the setting, in fact, for some of the book), eventually buying the house she grew up in, back in Los Altos.
Lewis excited to embark on fourth term as Atherton’s mayor
Dec 31, 2024 · Atherton has a busy 2025 on the horizon, and new Mayor Elizabeth Lewis says she is looking forward to it. On Dec. 18, Lewis was chosen by her fellow council members to serve as mayor of Atherton for the fourth time. Stacy Miles Holland will be vice mayor for 2025. In an interview with The Almanac ...
2024 in Photos - The Almanac
Dec 31, 2024 · Garden Thyme teacher Brook Coffee examines seeds in one of the garden boxes that students maintain on the patio of Portola Valley’s Ormondale Elementary School on May 29, 2024. Photo by Anna Hoch-Kenney. From left: A client works on balance and motor skills during an equine facilitated therapy session alongside staff and a …
Bay Area celebrates Indigenous Peoples’ Day as international ...
Oct 14, 2024 · Tribes from across the country come to the Bay Area to celebrate Indigenous People’s Day. These scenes were from a celebration in Berkeley, CA on Oct. 13, 2024 Courtesy Ruth Dusseault / Bay City News Service.
How will the 2024 propositions affect Silicon Valley?
Nov 26, 2024 · Without the state mandating minimum wage increases, it’s up to municipalities to pass wage increases. Proposition 33. Proposition 33 would have allowed local governments to expand rent control by repealing the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, a state law prohibiting rent control on housing built after Feb. 1, 1995.The housing act also allows landlords to increase rent when a new family ...